How to find the port for MS SQL Server 2008?

Question

I am running MS SQL Server 2008 on my local machine. I know that the default port is 1433 but some how it is not listening at this port. The SQL is an Express edition.

Answer 1

This works for SQL Server 2005 - 2012. Look for event id = 26022 in the error log under applications. That will show the port number of sql server as well as what ip addresses are allowed to access.